Walter Stewart

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Politics 207 Women and the Law

This course is an assessment, in terms of political power, of how the legal order impinges on women in American society, with an examination of the legal rights of women in a number of areas of substantive law: equal opportunity in education, employment, and credit; selected aspects of the law governing marital status, the family, and property.

Politics 210 Minorities and the Law

Focuses on the interrelationship of law and the distribution of political power as they impinge on members of disadvantaged ethnic and racial minorities. Examines the legal status of Native Americans, African Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and Latino/Hispanic groups in historical perspective, together with the impact of ethnic and racial stratification on the contemporary exercise of police and the operation of jails as social institutions. Assesses the contemporary status of minority groups under the U.S. Constitution in the areas of "equal protection" and "due process," and legislation purporting to eliminate racial discrimination in housing, banking, and employment.

Politics 213 African Political Systems

Offers a comparative study of selected political systems, emphasizing political conflict in southern Africa. Examines African participation in regional and universal international organizations.

Politics 247 International Law

This course presents international norms and institutions for regulating conflict, including civil strife, promoting economic well-being, protecting human rights, exploring and using outer space, and controlling exploitation and pollution of the oceans. International agreements, problems of lawmaking, interpretation, and compliance; nationality and the status of foreigners and their investments; the principle of self-determination. Interests of postcolonial states as they impinge on the international legal order.

Politics 256 The International Protection of the Environment

(International Relations 256s; Environmental Studies 257s) The politics of the transnational regulation of the environment - domestic linkages of international efforts by states and international governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The relationship between environmental protection and sustainable development and its rationale - the impact of an increasingly globalized economy upon the environment.

Politics 349 International Organization

(Complex Organizations 349s) This course is the study of the United Nations system and regional organizations, including the European Communities, the Organization of African Unity, and the Organization of American States, with a view to ascertaining their contribution to the international political order and the impact on these organizations of international interdependencies in such fields as ecology, economics, and technology.